Complexes Quote by Mary Pickford

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

— Mary Pickford

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often…

— Kevin Brownlow

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in…

— John Szarkowski

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

— William Albert Allard

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public…

— John Ralston Saul

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate…

— John Hench

The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies,…

— Kevin Brownlow

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things…

— Bob Edwards

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had…

— Berenice Bejo